Text broadcast of public presentations of the candidates for the RASO Political Prize "Hamburg Account".
Candidacy: The best campaign of a candidate from the party in power in a single-mandate constituency for the State Duma.
Candidate: Stanislav Kochev (Komi Republic).
Part 1.
Speaker: Polina Antonova, chief communication technologist.
By 2025, there were dark times for United Russia in Komi. Since the end of 2015 there has been no systematic political work; Conflicts with local elites and parties began. As a result, the election results dropped sharply in 2016. In 2021, the communist Oleg Mikhailov won the single-mandate constituency, and according to the party lists, we were in last place. In 2024, Comey showed the worst result in the country for support for the president.
And in 2025, we began a five-year cycle of rebooting the administrative and political circuit. "Pride" project. security "Victory", which we started, ended with the victory of Rostislav Goldstein in the elections for the post of governor, and for the United Russia Party we improved the result compared to 2020 in the Legislative Assembly and the City Council. However, the 2026 campaign was tougher and more competitive than the 2025 campaign.
In January, 55% of the residents were not satisfied with the state of affairs in the area. The resource-based economy was under sanctions, and the Komi budget became subsidized for the first time. Forced streamlining and the restoration of order began in the social sphere. This added, firstly, negativity, and secondly, they became a good platform for the communists and especially for the current State Duma deputy Oleg Mikhailov. And people began to perceive him as the Robin Hood of politics and as a man who had already defeated the authorities.
The reasons for the majority of the population's dissatisfaction with that economy were not within the scope of the regional authorities' decision; We could not influence him. And the protest electorate is growing. Our candidate, Hero of Russia Stanislav Vadymovich Kuchev, is a huge capital for the region, it is a great honor that he is running from the Republic of Komi. But in January 2026 he had no support.